Indo-European 's Movable
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2863005 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Franklin Edgerton (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1958 |
| Volume | 34 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 445 |
| Publication date | 1958-10-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Language (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0097-8507 • E-ISSN: 1535-0665 |
| Publisher | JSTOR (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/410691 |
| OpenAlex | W2320746727 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 4 |
No Indo-Europeanist can fail to be struck by the numerous cases in which the same root seems clearly to appear sometimes with initial s plus consonant, sometimes with the same consonant but without the s. This is called ‘s mobile’, or in English ‘s movable’. Often the two forms appear in the same language, as in Skt. paś : spaś - ‘see’. In other cases one form appears in one Indo-European language, or in several, the other in other languages. But there is no regularity; all Indo-European languages seem to be unpredictable in this respect. As Wackernagel observes (1.§231), the facts, it seems, Verbieten an ein durchgehendes Lautgesetz zu denken'. In the next sentence he writes: ‘... muss solcher Schwund [of initial s before consonant] schon in der Grundsprache stattgefunden haben, und zwar ... wenn bestimmte Konsonanten im Auslaut des vorausgehenden Wortes standen’
Linguistics · History · Linguistics and language evolution · Philosophy
| Unique citing works | 4 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,06 |
| Citation span | 1963 - 1988 (26) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 4 |